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July 26, 2009

G97: Orioles 6, Red Sox 2

Smoltz (5-9-6-1-6, 83) has been annoyed with himself for being unable to slam the door on a rally and record the third out in an inning without allowing a run. He had the same problem today; four of Baltimore's six runs scored with two outs.

In the third, the Orioles had a man on second and two outs. But Smoltz allowed back-to-back RBI doubles to Nick Markakis and Nolan Reimold and, after a visit from John Farrell, gave up a run-scoring single to Ty Wigginton. Boston trailed 4-1. With two outs in the fourth, Brian Roberts singled and Felix Pie doubled him in.

The Sox could do little with Hernandez, who retired the first nine batters and 13 of the first 14. Jacoby Ellsbury and Adam LaRoche each had two singles.

Hernandez is a rookie right-handeder with seven games (six starts) under his belt. He's fortunate to have a good ERA considering how many baserunners he's allowed: 41 hits and 15 walks in 38 innings (1.474 WHIP).

They were talking about Youk being involved in an event about teenage suicide and were just coming out with that info when mora made his stretching snow cone catch and never came back to it...actually cut off mid-word.

Got the impression that Lugo's defense was the real problem for the Sox this year though. He was hitting pretty well actually this year but sucks at SS even more than he used to. 6-for-10 doesn't make me at all sorry he's gone.